You can help us change the course of hearing research and help us find a cure for hearing loss and tinnitus.

Hearing Health Foundation’s special “Named Research Grants” Program enables a donor to fund an entire research project and name that specific research grant in their name or in honor or memory of a loved one.

For a minimum gift of $30,000, you can create your Hearing Health Foundation named research grant. For gifts between the amounts of $5,000 and $30,000, you can also partially name a grant and it will be recognized as a partial named grant. Many have done so to honor or to memorialize someone special to them.

1. Upon making your gift, you work with Hearing Health Foundation staff on the name you would like to have for your grant.

2. You and Hearing Health Foundation staff determine the type of research you are interested in (if applicable.)

3. Hearing Health Foundation submits a request for proposals to researchers around the nation for quality research projects in the research area you selected.

4. Hearing Health Foundation’s national grants committee reviews and selects the awardee of the grant.

5. Hearing Health Foundation provides you with the name of the researcher and the selected research proposal.

6. Your named grant will be acknowledged and recognized in several ways, including but not limited to:

Since 2009, The Barbara Epstein Foundation has partnered with Hearing Health Foundation in naming a research grant in honor of their family member, Todd M. Bader, who has hearing loss. The Todd M. Bader Research Grant provides direct support for research that makes significant contributions to the field of hearing and balance science and to the development of treatments for hearing loss.

Hearing Health Foundation thanks The Barbara Epstein Foundation for their kindness and the very special way that they have chosen to honor their family member. The Todd M. Bader Research Grant impacts the nearly 50 million Americans living with hearing loss.